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8.6.3.1 Type Mapping 
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The primitive IDL types used in the DOM specification are mapped to
Python types according to the following table.

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    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><code>boolean</code></td>
        <td class="left"  ><code>IntegerType</code> (with a value of <code>0</code> or <code>1</code>)</td></tr>
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    <tr><td class="left"   valign="baseline"><code>long int</code></td>
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Additionally, the <tt class="class">DOMString</tt> defined in the recommendation is
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be able to handle Unicode whenever a string is returned from the DOM.

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The IDL <tt class="keyword">null</tt> value is mapped to <code>None</code>, which may be
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